Color

#bdb3ba

#bdb3ba
hex#bdb3ba
rgbrgb(189, 179, 186)
hslhsl(318, 7%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.777 0.015 336.2)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.466

Colors that go with #bdb3ba

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #bdb3ba

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b3bdb6

#bbb3bd · #bdb3b5

#babdb3 · #b3babd

Split-complementary

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#b5bdb3 · #b3bdbb

#bdbbb3 · #b3bdb6 · #b3b5bd

Contrast

#bdb3ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.03:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #806f7b as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #62555e as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
10.32:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #bdb3ba as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#bdb3ba reads as neutral, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #bdb3ba
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #bdb3ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/bdb3ba-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md